Culture

Several AKDN agencies and affiliates are active in Canada. One of the most
prominent institutions is the Aga Khan Foundation,
which has mobilised funds for development initiatives in Eastern Africa
and South and Central Asia, notably through the annual World
Partnership Walk.

The Global Centre for Pluralism, to
be built in the former Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, will be a major new
international centre for research, education and exchange about the values,
practices and policies that underpin pluralist societies.

The Aga Khan Museum, which opened in 2014, in Toronto,
Canada, is dedicated to presenting an overview of the artistic, intellectual and scientific contributions that Muslim civilizations have made to world heritage.

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The Aga Khan Receives Canada’s New Representative to the Ismaili Imamat04 March 2015 - His Highness the Aga Khan today received His Excellency Gordon Campbell, who has been recently appointed as the Representative of the Government of Canada to the Ismaili Imamat. Mr. Campbell is a former premier of British Columbia and Canada’s current High Commissioner in London

Aga Khan Museum Opens to Public with Inaugural Exhibitions and Performing Arts Programme18 September 2014 - The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, which is dedicated to presenting an overview of the artistic, intellectual and scientific contributions that Muslim civilisations have made to world heritage, opened its doors to the public today. It also opened two temporary exhibitions open: The Garden of Ideas: Contemporary Art from Pakistan and In Search of the Artist: Signed Drawings and Paintings from the Aga Khan Museum Collection. The Performing Arts programme begins on September 20th with Routes of Andalusia and on 21st with Qalandar: Mugham, Dastgah, and Maqam.

Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance

Microfinance for Women in Northern Pakistan

Since its establishment in 2005, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) has taken over 25 years of microfinance activities, programmes and banks that were administered by sister agencies within the AKDN. The underlying objectives of the Agency are to reduce poverty, diminish the vulnerability of poor populations and alleviate economic and social exclusion. more